Human Gene TREX1 (ENST00000444177.1) from GENCODE V44
  Description: Homo sapiens three prime repair exonuclease 1 (TREX1), transcript variant 5, mRNA. (from RefSeq NM_007248)
RefSeq Summary (NM_007248): This gene encodes a nuclear protein with 3' exonuclease activity. The encoded protein may play a role in DNA repair and serve as a proofreading function for DNA polymerase. Mutations in this gene result in Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome, chilblain lupus, Cree encephalitis, and other diseases of the immune system. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Sep 2012].
Gencode Transcript: ENST00000444177.1
Gencode Gene: ENSG00000213689.14
Transcript (Including UTRs)
   Position: hg38 chr3:48,465,946-48,467,643 Size: 1,698 Total Exon Count: 2 Strand: +
Coding Region
   Position: hg38 chr3:48,466,686-48,467,600 Size: 915 Coding Exon Count: 1 

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Data last updated at UCSC: 2023-08-18 00:09:47

-  Sequence and Links to Tools and Databases
 
Genomic Sequence (chr3:48,465,946-48,467,643)mRNA (may differ from genome)Protein (304 aa)
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-  Comments and Description Text from UniProtKB
  ID: TREX1_HUMAN
DESCRIPTION: RecName: Full=Three prime repair exonuclease 1; EC=3.1.11.2; AltName: Full=3'-5' exonuclease TREX1; AltName: Full=DNase III;
FUNCTION: Exonuclease with a preference for double stranded DNA with mismatched 3' termini. May play a role in DNA repair.
CATALYTIC ACTIVITY: Exonucleolytic cleavage in the 3'- to 5'- direction to yield nucleoside 5'-phosphates.
COFACTOR: Magnesium. Required for activity. Substitution with Mn(2+) results in partial activity (By similarity).
SUBUNIT: Homodimer.
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: Nucleus (By similarity).
TISSUE SPECIFICITY: Detected in thymus, spleen, liver, brain, heart, small intestine and colon.
DISEASE: Defects in TREX1 are the cause of Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome type 1 (AGS1) [MIM:225750]. A form of Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome, a genetically heterogeneous disease characterized by cerebral atrophy, leukoencephalopathy, intracranial calcifications, chronic cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) lymphocytosis, increased CSF alpha-interferon, and negative serologic investigations for common prenatal infection. Clinical features as thrombocytopenia, hepatosplenomegaly and elevated hepatic transaminases along with intermittent fever may erroneously suggest an infective process. Severe neurological dysfunctions manifest in infancy as progressive microcephaly, spasticity, dystonic posturing and profound psychomotor retardation. Death often occurs in early childhood. AGS1 inheritance can be autosomal recessive or dominant.
DISEASE: Defects in TREX1 are a cause of susceptibility to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) [MIM:152700]. SLE is a chronic, inflammatory and often febrile multisystemic disorder of connective tissue. It affects principally the skin, joints, kidneys and serosal membranes. It is thought to represent a failure of the regulatory mechanisms of the autoimmune system.
DISEASE: Defects in TREX1 are the cause of chilblain lupus type 1 (CHBL1) [MIM:610448]. A cutaneous form of lupus erythematosus. Affected individuals present with painful bluish-red papular or nodular lesions of the skin in acral locations precipitated by cold and wet exposure at temperatures less than 10 degrees centigrade.
DISEASE: Defects in TREX1 are the cause of vasculopathy, retinal, with cerebral leukodystrophy (RVCL) [MIM:192315]. A microvascular endotheliopathy with middle-age onset. This retinal vasculopathy is characterized by telangiectasias, microaneurysms and retinal capillary obliteration starting in the macula. Diseased cerebral white matter has prominent small infarcts that often coalesce to pseudotumors.
SIMILARITY: Belongs to the exonuclease superfamily. TREX family.
CAUTION: The gene for this protein is either identical to or adjacent to that of ATRIP. Some of the mRNAs that encode ATRIP also encode TREX1 in another reading frame.
SEQUENCE CAUTION: Sequence=AAD48774.2; Type=Erroneous initiation;
WEB RESOURCE: Name=GeneReviews; URL="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/GeneTests/lab/gene/TREX1";
WEB RESOURCE: Name=NIEHS-SNPs; URL="http://egp.gs.washington.edu/data/trex1/";

-  Primer design for this transcript
 

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-  MalaCards Disease Associations
  MalaCards Gene Search: TREX1
Diseases sorted by gene-association score: aicardi-goutieres syndrome 1, dominant and recessive* (1525), chilblain lupus* (1360), vasculopathy, retinal, with cerebral leukodystrophy* (1044), systemic lupus erythematosus* (645), aicardi-goutieres syndrome* (388), familial chilblain lupus* (369), lupus erythematosus (72), systemic lupus erythematosus 1 (18), cutaneous lupus erythematosus (15), encephalitis (7), microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism, type i (6), cerebral arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy 1 (6), cerebral degeneration (1)
* = Manually curated disease association

-  Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD)
  The following chemicals interact with this gene           more ... click here to view the complete list

+  Microarray Expression Data
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-  mRNA Secondary Structure of 3' and 5' UTRs
 
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5' UTR -113.40242-0.469 Picture PostScript Text
3' UTR -1.3043-0.030 Picture PostScript Text

The RNAfold program from the Vienna RNA Package is used to perform the secondary structure predictions and folding calculations. The estimated folding energy is in kcal/mol. The more negative the energy, the more secondary structure the RNA is likely to have.

-  Protein Domain and Structure Information
  InterPro Domains: Graphical view of domain structure
IPR012337 - RNaseH-like_dom

ModBase Predicted Comparative 3D Structure on Q9NSU2
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-  Orthologous Genes in Other Species
  Orthologies between human, mouse, and rat are computed by taking the best BLASTP hit, and filtering out non-syntenic hits. For more distant species reciprocal-best BLASTP hits are used. Note that the absence of an ortholog in the table below may reflect incomplete annotations in the other species rather than a true absence of the orthologous gene.
MouseRatZebrafishD. melanogasterC. elegansS. cerevisiae
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-  Gene Ontology (GO) Annotations with Structured Vocabulary
  Molecular Function:
GO:0003676 nucleic acid binding
GO:0003697 single-stranded DNA binding
GO:0004518 nuclease activity
GO:0004527 exonuclease activity
GO:0005515 protein binding
GO:0008296 3'-5'-exodeoxyribonuclease activity
GO:0008408 3'-5' exonuclease activity
GO:0008853 exodeoxyribonuclease III activity
GO:0016787 hydrolase activity
GO:0032405 MutLalpha complex binding
GO:0032407 MutSalpha complex binding
GO:0042803 protein homodimerization activity
GO:0046872 metal ion binding

Biological Process:
GO:0006259 DNA metabolic process
GO:0006260 DNA replication
GO:0006281 DNA repair
GO:0006298 mismatch repair
GO:0006310 DNA recombination
GO:0032479 regulation of type I interferon production
GO:0090305 nucleic acid phosphodiester bond hydrolysis

Cellular Component:
GO:0005634 nucleus
GO:0005635 nuclear envelope
GO:0005737 cytoplasm
GO:0005783 endoplasmic reticulum
GO:0005789 endoplasmic reticulum membrane
GO:0005829 cytosol
GO:0016020 membrane


-  Descriptions from all associated GenBank mRNAs
  LF208643 - JP 2014500723-A/16146: Polycomb-Associated Non-Coding RNAs.
MA444220 - JP 2018138019-A/16146: Polycomb-Associated Non-Coding RNAs.
AF319566 - Homo sapiens clone T1P4 3'-5' exonuclease TREX1 (TREX1) mRNA, complete cds.
AF319567 - Homo sapiens clone T1P3 3'-5' exonuclease TREX1 (TREX1) mRNA, complete cds.
AF319568 - Homo sapiens clone T1P2 3'-5' exonuclease TREX1-like protein (TREX1) mRNA, complete cds.
AF319569 - Homo sapiens clone T1P1 3'-5' exonuclease TREX1 (TREX1) mRNA, complete cds.
AL137745 - Homo sapiens mRNA; cDNA DKFZp434J0310 (from clone DKFZp434J0310).
BC019863 - Homo sapiens, clone IMAGE:5109215, mRNA.
AF151105 - Homo sapiens 3'-5' exonuclease TREX1 mRNA, complete cds.
AJ243797 - Homo sapiens mRNA for deoxyribonuclease III (drn3 gene).
JD068764 - Sequence 49788 from Patent EP1572962.
JD368083 - Sequence 349107 from Patent EP1572962.
JD191348 - Sequence 172372 from Patent EP1572962.
JD221942 - Sequence 202966 from Patent EP1572962.
JD435164 - Sequence 416188 from Patent EP1572962.
JD141890 - Sequence 122914 from Patent EP1572962.
JD223362 - Sequence 204386 from Patent EP1572962.
AK315196 - Homo sapiens cDNA, FLJ96181, Homo sapiens three prime repair exonuclease 1 (TREX1), transcriptvariant 1, mRNA.
BC023630 - Homo sapiens three prime repair exonuclease 1, mRNA (cDNA clone IMAGE:4843138), complete cds.
CU692814 - Synthetic construct Homo sapiens gateway clone IMAGE:100021943 5' read TREX1 mRNA.
KJ893273 - Synthetic construct Homo sapiens clone ccsbBroadEn_02667 TREX1 gene, encodes complete protein.
KR711151 - Synthetic construct Homo sapiens clone CCSBHm_00020846 TREX1 (TREX1) mRNA, encodes complete protein.
KR711152 - Synthetic construct Homo sapiens clone CCSBHm_00020848 TREX1 (TREX1) mRNA, encodes complete protein.
KR711153 - Synthetic construct Homo sapiens clone CCSBHm_00020857 TREX1 (TREX1) mRNA, encodes complete protein.
BC160084 - Synthetic construct Homo sapiens clone IMAGE:100064020, MGC:193199 three prime repair exonuclease 1 (TREX1) mRNA, encodes complete protein.
CR457119 - Homo sapiens full open reading frame cDNA clone RZPDo834B0212D for gene TREX1, three prime repair exonuclease 1; complete cds, incl. stopcodon.
BT020052 - Homo sapiens three prime repair exonuclease 1 mRNA, complete cds.
BT020053 - Homo sapiens three prime repair exonuclease 1 mRNA, complete cds.
LF378647 - JP 2014500723-A/186150: Polycomb-Associated Non-Coding RNAs.
MA614224 - JP 2018138019-A/186150: Polycomb-Associated Non-Coding RNAs.
JD510368 - Sequence 491392 from Patent EP1572962.

-  Biochemical and Signaling Pathways
  KEGG - Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
hsa04623 - Cytosolic DNA-sensing pathway

BioCarta from NCI Cancer Genome Anatomy Project
h_atrbrcaPathway - Role of BRCA1, BRCA2 and ATR in Cancer Susceptibility

Reactome (by CSHL, EBI, and GO)

Protein Q9NSU2 (Reactome details) participates in the following event(s):

R-HSA-3244605 TREX1 binds retroviral-derived DNA
R-HSA-3248023 Regulation by TREX1
R-HSA-3134975 Regulation of innate immune responses to cytosolic DNA
R-HSA-1834949 Cytosolic sensors of pathogen-associated DNA
R-HSA-168249 Innate Immune System
R-HSA-168256 Immune System

-  Other Names for This Gene
  Alternate Gene Symbols: B2RCN9, NM_007248, Q8TEU2, Q9BPW1, Q9NSU2, Q9Y4X2, TREX1_HUMAN, uc031rzp.1, uc031rzp.2
UCSC ID: ENST00000444177.1
RefSeq Accession: NM_007248
Protein: Q9NSU2 (aka TREX1_HUMAN or TRE1_HUMAN)
CCDS: CCDS59451.1, CCDS2769.1

-  GeneReviews for This Gene
  GeneReviews article(s) related to gene TREX1:
ags (Aicardi-Goutieres Syndrome)
dystonia-ov (Hereditary Dystonia Overview)
rvcl (Retinal Vasculopathy with Cerebral Leukoencephalopathy and Systemic Manifestations)

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